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Parkview is a great place to build lifelong relationships, receive care and support, and thrive in your relationship with God. Learn more about our values and meet the team below.

Reece and Julia Butler's Mission

Empowering Local leaders to make disciples. Using sports as a vehicle for discipleship, we provide both loving community and excellent development that transforms both individual lives and whole communities

Our Ministry

Our ministry creates a transformational experience through sports that provides both loving community and excellent development to high school athletes. This process breaks the cycle of poverty in our community by equipping young leaders with the skills to make and keep the next great commitments of their lives.

By making football a commitment to be kept, we hold the players to a high standard and equip them to keep their commitment. We provide regular feedback on their development and give opportunities within the program for leadership that is a dress rehearsal for the next commitments of their lives – college, family, and career.

92% of our last three graduating classes remain on track to graduate college or trade school compared to just 38% from 2018-2021.

We accomplish this ministry through a variety of different programs:

  1. Transformational Football
    The year-round training schedule and fall season combine loving community with excellent development to provide our guys with a transformational experience that helps them make and keep the next great commitment of their lives.

  2. SLAM – Sports Mentorship Night
    We invite our players into spaces like SLAM where they can begin to know God through His word and in relationship with mentors.

  3. Weekly Bible Study
    After eating a family-style meal, we make space for students to grow in their walk with God by studying His word and applying it to their lives.

  4. Spring + Summer Leadership Retreats
    Regular retreats give us a chance for intentional leadership development and to walk life on life with our students as we help them grow in their discipleship.

About Vinnie

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Since 2015, Julia and I have been serving high school students on the Westside of Chicago. We met at Wheaton College and welcomed our son Jordan into the family in 2024. Our ministry began by using football as a vehicle for discipleship. Through the combination of loving community and excellent development we are seeing God transform lives. We have had a growing desire for more students to be discipled and God has brought young leaders onto our staff and opened opportunities for discipleship into new schools and sports programs. We continue to live on the Westside and love being a part of the work God is doing to love and redeem our community.

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